Putin is hardly a peacemaker

11:24 PM,
Sep. 14, 2013

Blogger Alex Zapesochny.

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Writing about President Obama's flurry of missteps on Syria, Time magazine's Joe Klein summed it up nicely: "It has been one of the more stunning and inexplicable displays of presidential incompetence that I've ever witnessed."

Yet to fully get a sense of the farce, one needed to switch from Time to TheNew York Times, which ran an essay last week by Russian President Vladimir Putin. His lecture about Russia's commitment to safeguarding "the entire system of international law" and protecting "the elderly and children" in Syria was not only a pitch-perfect example of the brazen duplicity and ...